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may have violated the rules.
By Rhonda Y. Maree
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
Although under fire from the State Ethics
Commission, Richmond County Commission
er Freddie Handy was cheerful as usual at
this week’s commission meeting.
“Concerned?” he asked. “I'm not concerned
because there isn’t anything. It’s all false —
all false,” Mr. Handy said of the allegations
against him.
Despite his complacency, the Ethics Com-.
mission’s recent investigation into charges of
campaign finance irregularities found cause’
to call a forum during which witnesses will
testify under oath sometime this summer.
The five-member panel could have found
no merit in the case and dismissed it after
only one hearing.
James R. Riles, an Augusta resident who
lodged the complaint in February, said coun
ty records filed by Mr. Handy showed dis
crepancies.
Among those is SI,BOO paid to Mr. Handy’s
wife, Catherine, who was listed as a house
wife but is actually a state employee, which
excludes her from such political involvement.
Other allegations are that Mr. Handy
See ETHICS, page 6
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As |
irreverent
as the era it
portrays,
Mario Van
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new action
flick is sure |
to spark a |
renewal of
interest 1n |
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nation’s |
most violent;
periods. i
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like Panther,
if you enjoy
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making by a
young director
who is not
drawn to over
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termzations, and |
self-indulgent
techno-intro
spection. |
Mario Van Peebles
doesn’t enjoy the
industry-creating
celebrity of a Spike
Lee, or the upstart
brilliance of a John |
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Native-American ‘hoods’
Mln Native -
American
communities out
west, Rasta lore and
reggae music find a
willing audience.
By Paul Brinkley-Rogers
The Arizona Republic
- © MESA, Ariz.
(AP) The genteel collection of
antique dealers, barbershops,
carpet outlets and bookstores
on Main Street in Mesa looks
frozen in time, circa 1950.
But diversity has arrived
among the beige stucco in the
form of a store called Rasta
Tings. The gold, green and red
decorated enterprise is located
in a building that former Gov.
Evan Mecham — no friend of
beards and long hair — once
used to plot the overthrow of
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the knowledge that good ac
tion flicks will stand the test
of time. In previous outings,
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Dreadlocks, Ethiopians, Jamai
cans.
This business, dedicated to sat
isfying the public’s need for the
“positive vibrations” of reggae
music, is turning heads in a city
founded by Mormon farmers. The
“Hey, how you doin’, man?” salu
tation to customers is not exactly
standard fare in Mesa, either.
But there is a reason for open
ing a reggae store in the unlikely,
location, says its owner, Daniel
Wegesa, 33, an emigrant from
Ethiopia who winds his ropelike
locks under a tall, woven hat.
Wegesa said that 80 percent of
action. Both movies were ba
sically the same. In New
Jack City,hip-hop Harlem was
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his customers are not the good
people of Mesa but are, instead,
Native Americans from the near
by Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Indian Community, as well as
from the San Carlos and White
Mountain Apache reservations
farther to the east.
There are fewer than 1,000
Ethiopians, most of them Chris
tian students, businessmen and
professionals, living in the Phoe
nix area, he said.
“Mesa is the central location
for my market,” the tall man
said. “I did a lot of research.”
He said that Mesa, Arizona’s
third-largest city, has made him
feel welcome in the two months
Rasta Tings has been open.
“I don’t see any problem with
Mesa,” he said, pointing out that
a Mesa downtown business jour
nal mentioned his opening.
Jack Barnes, who works at a
Main Street auto-repair shop,
said, “They don’tbother me none.
Hey, I think it’s great. Mesa is
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CITY CRISIS
ESCALATING
Police layoffs are on
the table; spending
freeze implemented.
By Rhonda Y. Maree
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
After months of
downplaying the city’s fi
nancial trouble, Augusta
Mayor Charles A. DeVaney
recently admitted the city
is in a crisis and offered
drastic job cuts as a cure.
Mr. DeVaney proposed
eliminating 172 city em
ployees, an effort toward
“cutting the fat” out of gov
ernment, he said.
“I really cannot tell you
that I enjoy making any of
these recommendations,”
he saidin Wednesday’s City
Council Finance Commit
tee meeting.
“They’re tough, they will
hurt some folks, but many
of these decisions should
have been made years ago,”
Mr. DeVaney said, adding
that city taxpayers will be
“the big winners.”
Among the various de
partments included in the
proposed cuts, the Police
Department is the hardest
hit, with 23 positions tar
geted. The Fire Depart
mentis targeted for 16, and
Public Transit could lose 15
employees. The cuts would
not hurt service, he said.
According to Mr.
DeVaney, the only way to
prevent a likely year-end
cash shortfall of $2.45 mil
lion is to “go to the heart” of
the city’s expenditures,
Farrakhan,
Shabazz cordial
in public meeting
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rift, Muslim leader
and widow of
Malcolm X shake
hands.
By Jerry Markon
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK
They didn’t embrace or
spend much time address
ing each other. But a hand
shake and an exchange of
cordial words between
Malcolm X’s widow and Lou
is Farrakhan may have end
ed a 30-year rift.
“Minister Farrakhan, may
the God of our forefathers
forever guide you on your
journey,” Betty Shabazztold
the Chicago-based Nation of
Islam leader as 1,400 people
cheered at a fund-raiser Sat
‘urday night in Harlem’s his
toric Apollo Theater.
In a 20-minute speech that
only briefly mentioned
Farrakhan, Shabazz
“These decisions
should have
been made years
ago.” :
— Mayor Charles
DeVaney
which is nearly 70 percent
personnel costs.
Although some depart
ment heads have already
made $1.3 million addition
al cutsin their budgets, Mr.
DeVaney said the addition
al cuts are also needed for
long-term stability.
“I feel that there is no
other choice than to recom
mend for the remainder of
this year $2.1 million in
additional personnel cuts
that will require a reduc
tion in force of 172 posi
tions,” he said.
“I cannot echo too strong
ly what the mayor is say
ing,” Councilman Gerald
Woods said. “It’s either
make these cuts now or end
up net being able to pay
anybody.”
A Reduction in Force pol
icy will be adopted, and
employees will receive at
least two week’s notice, Mr.
DeVaney said.
Councilman Lee Beard
said he agreed that serious
cuts had to be made, but he
was not satisfied with
See CRISIS, page 3
thanked him for his support
of her daughter, Qubilah, in
her fight against federal
charges that she plotted to
kill Farrakhan.
As she left the podium,
Farrakhan shook her hand
briefly and began an hour
long speech. Shabazz sat two
seats away, nodding occasion
ally, as Farrakhan received
numerous standing ovations.
Farrakhan again denied
any involvement in the Feb.
21, 1965, assassination of
Malcolm X during a rally in
Harlem’s Audubon Ball
room, two miles from the
Apollo. And herailed against
those he accused of encour
aging a split in the black
community.
“It’'s sad that there are
those who do not want to see
Sister Shabazzand I sitdown
and make an honest attempt
at reconciliation, when we
are both victims of a wider
conspiracy,” Farrakhansaid.
“It is my fervent hope and
See SHABAZZ, page 2
